A question about filters
Apr. 18th, 2016 10:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
the_rckYears ago, I used to use a filter for posts related to writing. I stopped because I didn’t feel like I had anything worth saying (I was often working on anonymous exchange stories that I couldn’t talk about) and because, as far as I could tell, nobody was actually interested. I’m thinking about talking more about my writing, possibly even going into details about aspects of particular stories that I’m struggling with or think are working well. Right now, when I go into details about my writing (anything more than a paragraph), I cut tag it.
Would people rather I filtered? If I start using such a filter again, would anyone be interested in reading it? I find talking about what I’m working on useful, but it’s generally more useful as dialog instead of monolog. I tend toward darkfic, so I would probably still use cuts, warn for content, and specify fandom.
Right now, I’ve got seven people on my writing filter on LJ, and two or three of those are people who haven’t posted to LJ in more than two years. A couple of the others are folks who I don’t think actually read my posts any more. I’ve got five people on the filter on DW.
I was going to make a poll about this, but I can only do that on DW, and I want input from folks on LJ, too, particularly the new people who’ve started reading me recently. So, if I do start posting more about the writing I’m currently doing, should I use an access filter or should I post publicly and cut tag things? I don’t feel any urgency to keep what I’m doing secret. I mainly don’t want to bore people or make them uncomfortable.
Would people rather I filtered? If I start using such a filter again, would anyone be interested in reading it? I find talking about what I’m working on useful, but it’s generally more useful as dialog instead of monolog. I tend toward darkfic, so I would probably still use cuts, warn for content, and specify fandom.
Right now, I’ve got seven people on my writing filter on LJ, and two or three of those are people who haven’t posted to LJ in more than two years. A couple of the others are folks who I don’t think actually read my posts any more. I’ve got five people on the filter on DW.
I was going to make a poll about this, but I can only do that on DW, and I want input from folks on LJ, too, particularly the new people who’ve started reading me recently. So, if I do start posting more about the writing I’m currently doing, should I use an access filter or should I post publicly and cut tag things? I don’t feel any urgency to keep what I’m doing secret. I mainly don’t want to bore people or make them uncomfortable.
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Date: 2016-04-19 04:13 am (UTC)